Royalists of Cuba

The Royalists were a monarchist political party in Cuba that was founded in 1868. The Royalists were loyal to Spain at the time of the Ten Years' War and the Cuban War of Independence, as they supported the Spanish monarchy and the status quo. The faction opposed the liberal revolutionaries' dreams of creating a free Cuba, and they allied with the Conservatives of Cuba, Moderate Party of Cuba, and Conservative Party of Cuba against the center-left and left-wing parties. The Royalists lost much of their power after the end of the Spanish-American War and the liberation of Cuba, and the former Spanish loyalists instead advocated the creation of a presidential dictatorship or constitutional monarchy in Cuba.